orthofaq.com is committed to protecting your privacy. The following statement outlines our privacy policy. We do not require visitors to provide any information to use the website or search functionality, or to access all of the publicly available community features on our site.
Who we are
Our website address is: orthofaq.com.
Information You Give Us
Personally Identifiable Information: If you choose to sign up for an orthofaq.com membership to gain additional functionality, we will ask you to provide your name, age, email address and other optional information such as location, occupation, interests, social presence and institution. We will NOT disclose, sell or exchange your personally identifiable information to or with anyone, without your specific permission, except when we believe disclosure is absolutely necessary to: (1) comply with the law or legal process; (2) protect or defend the rights or property of orthoFAQ.com or others; (3) enforce this Agreement; or (4) respond to claims that the contents of any communications violate the rights of others.
Email Addresses: Members and visitors of orthofaq.com can readily access email any of the members who have chosen to be visible to public. Each member can turn off this functionality at any time if he/she so chooses.
Mailing List: Members are automatically enrolled for our mailing list service. Users can contact us anytime to have them removed. Our mailing list is used to keep you and others informed about orthopedics and orthofaq.com. We do not share or sell your information to any third parties. We may use data from the list in the form of aggregate statistics, which do not identify you, for tracking web usage only.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Automatic Information
Aggregated User Information That Does Not Identify Any User Individually: We perform statistical analysis of the collective characteristics and behavior of our members and visitors, to measure overall demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the orthofaq.com domain and to analyze how and where to use our resources. We also use the aggregate data collected to inform our sponsors and/or content partners as to the number of people who have seen and “clicked” on their advertisement and/or content. In addition, we may compile and disclose aggregate information about users for promotional or other purposes. For example, we might want to disclose that a certain percentage of our users are located within a particular geographic area.
Cookies: We use cookies for session tracking, and user preferences for registered users on our site. We may also use cookies to help us determine how long users view particular content, which particular content (e.g., advertising) users view, which content or sites users link to, and which orthofaq.com services members and visitors use.
We may at times use a few third party ad networks to serve ads on our site, such as Google Adsense and others. The cookies received with banner ads served by these networks are used to collect and build anonymous behavioral profiles by these companies to deliver targeted ads and tracking referrals, and we do not have access to this information.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Links
orthofaq.com shall be entitled to display advertisement or other contents that contain hyperlinks to third-party websites. Only the provider of the website referred to shall be liable for illegal, erroneous or incomplete contents and particularly for damages that result from use or non-use of these links. We have no influence particularly on the data protection measures and contents of the sites linked to.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Security
Data protection of our users is a special concern for us. Your password protects your user account and should be thus a strong password that is not used elsewhere. You should restrict access to your computer and browser and you should log-off after using orthofaq.com services. As a registered user, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login name and password and for restricting access to your computer.
The orthofaq.com portal and our systems are protected through technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, alteration or distribution of your data through unauthorized parties. A complete protection against all hazards is however not possible in-spite of frequent controls.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Access and Update of Profile Data, Deletion
You can access and change your profile data via your account-settings. You may cancel your subscription to this website at any time by sending notice of your cancellation by email to support@orthofaq.com with “Delete Account” in the subject line.
If there is anything else we can do to protect your privacy, please let us know via our contact page.
Last update: September 17, 2022